Volume Press conference / 28 March

VOLUME: A NEW PROJECT
Archis + AMO + C-lab are launching a new global idea platform to voice architecture anyway, anywhere, anytime. An instrument of cultural invention and re-invention. It is dedicated to experimentation and the production of new forms of architectural discourse.

Project founders: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley

The VOLUME project continues ARCHIS, magazine for Architecture, City and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Volume magazine and Archis RSVP events form an experimental think tank devoted to the process of real-time spacial and cultural reflexivity. archis.org

Other protagonists in this project: AMO, a research and design studio that applies architectural thinking to disciplines beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism. AMO operates in tandem with its companion company the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
oma.nl

The Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication in architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.
c-lab.columbia.edu

VOLUME is produced by the Archis Foundation, The Netherlands.

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[loola456]

I agree somewhat

[GOTTshua]

Architecture has always been for the wealthy. What else do you find in your architecture books?

A "new" architecture? Honesty? In this stylized, facade-driven, image-worshipping 21st century?

No one is ready for honest architecture.

It would clash with people's ideas of "what is architecture" which equates to "what the rich people have" and that is falsehood.

But once the economy fails, quality shanty towns will return us to utilitarian necessity with creative individualism=CHANGE

[617arg]

i want to hear the debate.........

post the debate please!!!!!

[skitchis]

about time. thanks for your sway in focus guys.